The Defense WAS garbage. It's only been good for 2 games.
(But it's trending in the right direction, esp the secondary.)
Head Coaches rarely if ever contribute effectively at Pete's age.
Pete squandered the last 5 years of drafts. (This one might offset it.)
Pete was a defensive coach and maybe one of the best talent evaluators/developers ever.
For years, he fielded crap defense and poor returns in UDFA/FA/drafts. Reasons to indicate the game passed him by.
(If 3-5 blown drafts give us one banger? Maybe averages out.)
We have effective run-and-pass games, and the OL looks much better. The secondary may have the pieces to be exceptional.
Most importantly, we won games we usually lose (Cards in Seattle and at Chargers)
This team is better than expected. That is cause to be thrilled.
Using hyperbolic language is a clear sign to question everything that follows. The defense wasn't actually garbage, and granted they had been playing poorly there is more evidence for improvement under a Pete Carroll run team than you are willing to admit. The poor play was identified by many professionals covering the Seahawks who had actually played the game at the pro level, and what was being stated was far from the idea of garbage.
A few key plays due to scheme, assignment, tackling and communication resulted in big hits for the other side coupled with some uneven flag throwing at times. The referee problem is league wide and simply something that needs to be accepted and adjusted for. The giving up big plays is on the coaches to help the players recognize where they need to be, how to communicate what they are seeing, how to do the fundamentals like tackling and playing together to prevent the homerun plays from ever occurring.
Next poor defensive display you will say I told you so Pete sucks..... I and others will say, well it happens that's how things are in football at this level. If you want near perfection look for an overpowered high school football team that has no competition to follow - you may see what you need to from the coaching.
Every other NFL team with competent coaching will be capable of identifying some areas that they can effectively attack for the team they are playing against. The Seahawks have usually done well adjusting for how other teams are playing them.
Early in the season is often the time where in-game adjustment may be less effective especially when fielding key inexperienced players who may be just trying to breathe from one play to the next. The early failures offer a great deal of learning tape to help the inexperienced players truly see what they did wrong and how they can correct their errors.
There it is. Good on you Twisted. Nice to see you got your second wind to bash Pete. It's easy to state criticism about Pete and the team but your criticism is faulty.
What you are doing could be done for every coach of every franchise that has not made it to and won the Superbowl in any particular year. This take on Pete Carroll has no veracity.
Drafting is always a crapshoot and your making claims about the state of past drafts and past performance is simply much too thin to claim anything. And in truth the drafts have not been nearly as horrible as you drone on about. You could do research on every organization's draft, but I suspect that even if you did evaluate every team's drafting over the last five years you would find the Seahawks are far from the bottom. Again the draft is a crapshoot and hence why most teams are willing to give up draft capital for known production. Every draft also includes the UDFA and players traded for in lieu of draft capital traded. Once you definitively state that any draft or trade was bad simply means you have gone deep into opinion based on what you feel not based upon facts.
If anything, what Pete has done is amazing considering the longevity of success that the Seahawks and the fanbase have enjoyed. Is it really a surprise that the draft capital weakening with that sustained success is the result? Of course the dynamics of each franchise is much more complicated than you care to consider including the aging of excellent players whose performance will naturally decline and injuries which will happen but cannot be foreseen when, where, or how among many others things (facilities, travel, player's mental health...). There is much much more to unpack.
This anti Pete bias has clouded your vision and for most the current success cannot be argued seriously, but it is clear that you will never accept that Pete is and has been an excellent coach. You, Twisted, will always believe what you believe and excuse the truth as something other than what it is. You may want to hope the Seahawks lose on Sunday so your .500 prediction can keep your confidence in tact.
Repeating the same false narrative over and over can be very effective for some to believe but it is nothing more than your opinion and no closer to the truth.
Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding the "illusion of truth" effect can help you avoid falling victim to this trick.
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